Most hated alternative pronunciation (other than nucular-- be creative)

Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:22 PM Original message

Most hated alternative pronunciation (other than nucular-- be creative)

Not going to do a poll on this (see the subject line for a hint as to why) but these are always fun in an angry, bitter, pedantic sort of way. Obviously more fun the less anger, bitterness and pedantry that we display. Remember: there are no wrong pronunciations, just different ones. Except for nucular of course; that one just chafes EVERYbody's shorts. At the moment, I'm very much hating processEES for the plural of process, as said by 9 out of 10 scientists on the Science Channel. Also defendANT; since every lawyer seems to pronounce it this way, I'd have to surmist that this is somehow proper legalese, but that still doesn't make it English. And you?

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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:35 PM Response to Original message

1. chim-ley.

WTF is that? It's a chimNEY. :eyes:

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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:41 PM Response to Original message

2. Worshington, Picksburgh, axt

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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:48 PM Response to Reply #2

12. Arrrghhhhh! "Axt" or "Ax" instead of "Asked" or "Ask"

Like fingernails across a chalkboard!

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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:25 PM Response to Reply #2

32. Chi-cargo...??? eom

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Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:42 PM Response to Original message

3. Calvary instead of cavalry

Drives me nuts!

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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:45 PM Response to Reply #3

6. that one gets under my skin too

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:29 PM Response to Reply #3

34. Calvary v. cavalry

cavalry = an organized group of horse soldiers. Calvary = hill on which Christ was crucified.

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AllegroRondo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:52 PM Response to Reply #3

59. I served in the First Cavalry Division

and you would be surprized how many officers mispronounced it during speeches.

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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:43 PM Response to Original message

4. "asterick" for asterisk.

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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:44 PM Response to Original message

5. Acrost = across

Bankin = embankment samich = sandwich

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:30 PM Response to Reply #5

38. I am guilty of this one...

and it took my husband pointing it out to me for me to realize it. So that means I said it for 31 years. Hell, I still say it. Is it a midwest thing?

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:11 PM Response to Reply #5

76. awww

I LIKE sammich. And two other words from my sons' childhood that we have retained - garjub (garbage) and seagulture (bird near sea shore).

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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:55 PM Response to Reply #76

99. we still buy "yogrit" for my son's lunches

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 04:58 PM by BigMcLargehuge LOL... he has a few mispronunciations that are cute.

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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 08:11 PM Response to Reply #5

156. I like the way Dave Thomas said it...

That is the late owner of Wendy's. He pronounced it, "saa-winch" Isn't that cute?

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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message

7. Lie-berry instead of library

or Bertday instead of birthday.

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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:36 PM Response to Reply #7

117. Burfday instead of birthday

mouf instead of mouth, except when a small child says it. It's cute coming from a preschooler, but not from an adult.

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UncleSepp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Dec-15-05 12:19 AM Response to Reply #7

183. Cheezuzzes Birdday!

I went to a church once that had a priest who, all through Christmas Mass, talked about Cheezuzzes Birdday. By the end of Mass my whole family was weeping with laughter.

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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message

8. REAL-a-ter

I think I am the only person in this town (in East Texas) who doesn't pronounce the word 'realtor' as if it were relator. Seriously. Drives me fucking nuts.

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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:59 PM Response to Reply #8

65. Realtor. REAL. TOR. Two syllables, folks! Learn it! n/t

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dolo amber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message

9. Liberry

Sure, if you're like 3 or your native language is Norweigan or something...otherwise... :grr:

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RevCheesehead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:48 PM Response to Original message

10. a few that bug me:

Ahhhnt (aunt) = ant (rhymes with "can't") Ahhhnvelope (envelope)= ENN-vu-lope Vahhhze (vase) = vayse Neeether (neither) = NIGH-ther INsurance = inSURance

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:05 PM Response to Reply #10

75. because of regional differences...

... I don't know which column is the 'correct' side and which is the side you don't like. It's: ahnt (spelled with a "u") en-velope, though either is acceptable vay-ss, though either is acceptable neether, though again eye-ther is acceptable and insurance has the stress on the second syllable.

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:12 PM Response to Reply #75

110. My vote:

"awn-velope" is only acceptable if you grew up speaking French. "nye-ther" makes you sound like a priss. "vawse" makes you sound like a snoot (if you're female), and a prig (if you're male). Redstone

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_testify_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 10:59 PM Response to Reply #10

169. i thought it was only 'vahhhze' if it cost more than $15 n/t

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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:48 PM Response to Original message

11. MUTE. God dammit, it's MOOT! MOOT!

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:58 PM Response to Reply #11

20. maybe they just want the point to shut the hell up.

:D

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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:29 PM Response to Reply #11

35. Bertha, not so sure...

mute (myoot) adj. Unable or unwilling to speak. n. One who does not have the faculty of speech. No longer in technical use, considered offensive. ________________ moot (moot) n. Law. A hypothetical case argued by law students as an exercise. An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.

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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:00 PM Response to Reply #35

67. "moot" as in "a moot point" - "doesn't make any difference" -- can

never be replaced with "mute" - it doesn't make sense. :hi:

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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:40 PM Response to Reply #67

84. Ah, I see, said the blind man to his deaf mute companion standing out

of hearing distance. I was refering to the pronunciation mistake, you were referring to using the wrong word entirely. Gotcha!!

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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:52 PM Response to Reply #84

97. imperfect communication tools, these internets

;)

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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:54 PM Response to Reply #84

98. imperfect communication tools, these internets

;)

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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:48 PM Response to Original message

13. Axe-presso for espresso and am-bah-lance

instead of ambulance.

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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:51 PM Response to Original message

14. It's not English

But I must say, that I hate how the Americans pronounce "Les Miserables" I have heard that butchered so many times...

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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:54 PM Response to Reply #14

15. Lez Misreblob?

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 02:55 PM by BigMcLargehuge Lez Misrobb Lez Misseroblerobleroble (Hamburgler variant) Les Misrebleh Lez Mizroblez Lay Miserobb Lay misriblez

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woofless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:58 PM Response to Reply #15

22. Nah man, its "doze mizables".

I vote for artic. There are two c's dammit. Arc-tic.

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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:30 PM Response to Reply #15

37. Less Miserables

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #14

58. My mother does it on purpose...pisses me off.

Or maybe she really doesn't know how to pronounce it? Either way, I've never heard her say it right. She wouldn't even have the vaguest notion a book or musical existed if it hadn't been for my interest in it. I got tickets to go see the musical in SF once and she wouldn't go with me. :(

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Momgonepostal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:55 PM Response to Original message

16. Sher-bert, please!

What first gave someone the idea to throw in the extra "R?" I wonder if it was some Eye-talian? :cringe:

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LaraMN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:59 PM Response to Reply #16

23. Ah! I duped you! It bugs me, too!

:banghead:

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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:21 PM Response to Reply #16

31. ARRGH!

Everyone in my wife's family says "Sher-bert!" I HATE that! When I told her how much that got on my nerves, she said "You're just being a language snob." She used to say "acrosst" until I set her straight.

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ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:44 PM Response to Reply #16

86. You someone from IT-ly?

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #86

100. You implying they might be an EYE-talian?

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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:56 PM Response to Original message

17. "Col-yums"

I sell columns. They go on porches, they're used as room dividers, people saw them in half and use them to hold up aquariums. Columns are good. Everyone needs some columns. And I pronounce them "col-umms." But in North Carolina, the preferred pronunciation seems to be "col-yum." I was at the Greenville store a few months ago and got asked several times for "col-yums." I was the only millwork associate in the Greenville store for a couple of days and sold a lot of "col-yums." People just love to install col-yums on their homes.

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eeyore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:57 PM Response to Original message

18. Hair-us-ment for Harassment and Nego-seee-ate for Negotiate

Hair-us-ment for Harassment and Nego-seee-ate for Negotiate I hear American news reporters say these all of the time. However, I do find it somewhat entertaining when the Brits say Nica-rag-you-uh for Nicaragua.

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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:57 PM Response to Original message

19. I got another... anyone know a "Gantt Chart?" Spoken as:

gnat chart. :rofl:

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LaraMN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:58 PM Response to Original message

21. "Sherbert" for "sherbet."

People have ARGUED that one with me!

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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 02:59 PM Response to Original message

24. The most endearing one I ever heard was "suede-o" for pseudo.

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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:04 PM Response to Original message

25. "larnyx" for larynx

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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:09 PM Response to Original message

26. Not so much pronunciation, but grammar misuse

Use of double negatives, ending statements with prepositions and improper use of indefinite articles.

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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:10 PM Response to Original message

27. LIBRUL instead of LIBERAL.

Get your insults right, people!

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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:17 PM Response to Original message

28. expresso

there's no x in it. there's no k in it. there's no c in it. there's nothing in it to warrant that pronunciation. :grr:

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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:20 PM Response to Reply #28

30. That Sticks In My Throat, Too

Probably boils the sicilian blood in me. The Professor

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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:22 PM Response to Reply #28

174. That drives my DD nuts, too.

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:19 PM Response to Original message

29. Pronouncing the "t" in "often"; and the south and NE awful "r" problem,

putting 'r's where they don't belong, and taking out the 'r's that are there. Warsh the cah. Pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd. And for whom "Sparta, Greece" becomes "Spotter, Greece".

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:29 PM Response to Reply #29

36. The R problem is mainly from

Mass and some parts of RI. I play card games. I park my car. My friends from Mass play cahd games and pahk their cahs. There is a joke up here that Mass has only 25 letters in the alphabet.

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #36

41. It's also in NYC and Westchester and ME. I don't notice it from CT people,

but definitely MA and RI have it. In spades. And I don't know enough VT or NH people to have found it. I don't find it in NY state outside of NYC and westchester. I think it's centered in Boston. :-) And it's also in the south, which makes sense since the south had so many british settlers.

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #41

60. Interesting. I was born and raised in NYC.

If anything, I have been told I pronounce my "r's" very hard. Not that I don't pronounce them. And I don't know of New Yorkers who can't pronounce their r's or substitute h's for them. I will have to listen more closely. Up here its fairly easy to recognize a Boston area accent because of the way they drop the r's.

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:58 PM Response to Reply #60

61. And it might be more Brooklyn and Bronx and Queens -

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 04:00 PM by Rabrrrrrr and the ones that I know who do it are mostly from the lower classes, though some from the upper. But NYC has so many different people represented that one can easily find any accent that one desires; and there certainly is no one accent that can be called "new york", unlike Boston which has a distinctly unique Boston accent (not that everyone uses it, but it's there). The stereotypical NYC accent of the Bowery Boys and etc. i don't think exists too much any more in the city any more, though I do know a few who speak that way. Now the Westchester people are just a weird mix of people and, really, who knows what's real and what's affectation there?

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #29

39. Often is properly pronounced with the "t".

An the New England "R" drop is endearing, not annoying. :-) It's wicked good!

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:36 PM Response to Reply #39

45. Up until the fifteenth century it was, yes.

But not any more, though there seems to be a resurgence of it since the 1800s with more wipespread literacy. But in my opinion, the t should NOT be sounded. And I've never had a diction teacher, choir director, or speech professor tell us to pronounce the t.

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:59 PM Response to Reply #45

64. New England, NYC, parts of NJ and the Southeast ...

... use an older form of English than does the rest of the country. Hence many of the odd pronounciations. USA generally vs. New England: basement / cellar to (when describing minutes before the hour) / of Ottoman / hassock soda (beverage) / tonic (Boston only) from the days when Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper were advertised as medicine. living room / parlor garbage or trash / trash - solid waste garbage or trash / garbage - organic food refuse garbage or trash / rubbish - irrepairable items dinner / supper an early, formal dinner / dinner snack / why to you midwesterners eat so much? large sandwich / grinder very / wicked (from the cricket term 'wicket') Worcester only liquor store / package store (blue sky laws requiring opaque packaging) purse (woman's hand bag) / pocketbook

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:46 PM Response to Reply #64

89. I say some of those--

trash (but I say garbage too) parlor --I have heard others say but don't use it myself grinder-- but it is a New England term as far as I know. When I was growing up in NY they were called heroes. pocketbook. --or "pockabook" LOL Package store (though I say liquor store more often but most people I know around here do say package store. For the other terms you listed I use the first one.

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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:49 PM Response to Reply #89

126. "heroes" only apply to a specific type of sandwich...

at least around here, and that's Greek Gyros, and yes, pronouncing it as "heroes" is correct, as far as I know.

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:10 PM Response to Reply #126

141. When I lived in NY

the "hero" sandwich was on a loaf type bread. Like a "Sub." Similar to the grinder except that in many places in NE the grinder uses "hard" bread which is crusty on the outside, soft on the inside. Unless they use a different term now, the same type of sandwich is called hero in NY unless they use "sub" now which I think is understood everywhere.

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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:30 PM Response to Reply #141

147. Subs and Gyros look similar...

Though many times you can get lamb in your Gyro, usually sub places don't have that option. Look to Greek restaurants or sandwich places for these. Look here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:36 PM Response to Reply #147

150. Are you sure we are talking about

the same thing? When I get a gyro around here the filling is put in a round piece of bread, kind of like a pita but thicker and it is folded over. When I get a sub or grinder the filling is put in piece of bread that is like a small or individual italian bread loaf. Gyros are good. I have had them a few times. But they look nothing like the grinders I get.

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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:50 PM Response to Reply #150

153. Damn, I forgot one thing...

Your right about the gyros, I was thinking of a sub shop that sell "gyros" in my area that look NOTHING like them. Don't ask me why, but they do, but that's marketing for you. There's a little booth near me that sells the real ones and they look sorta like a pita. Do you pronounce gyros as "jiros" or heroes(hiros). Around here we pronounce them with an "H".

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:58 PM Response to Reply #153

154. Well, I have been told that the correct

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 07:58 PM by calico1 pronunciation is "yee-roh" though most people I know say "jie-ro." In NYC the "hero" sandwich is like the grinder or sub or hoagie. And it is spelled "hero" not "gyro." They sell those there too but they are the ones you are referring to which are Greek. Whew! Confusing! :silly:

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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 08:17 PM Response to Reply #154

157. We are simple here in the Mid-West....

A sub is a sub, never use any other names, a sandwich is a sandwich, and a gyro is a gyro. Though we do have some oddities with language, soda and Coke are interchangable around here, pop is never used.

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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:44 PM Response to Reply #64

121. milkshake = frappe (Boston only)

if you order a "milkshake", you may be astonished to see the guy pour milk and syrup into a shaker, shake it, and serve it to you! The frozen treat you're really after is a "frappe" (one syllable, rhymes with "rap"). "wicked" is "eastern Mass. only", "hahdly" just Woostah! "pocketbook" is also found in Baltimore, where I grew up. "cheeze" is an acceptable alternate spelling, Boston only, I believe.

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:47 PM Response to Reply #121

165. Wicked is also used a lot in Maine

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Pharlo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 10:06 PM Response to Reply #64

167. Hmmm...

I'm from the midwest. I use both cellar and basement interchangeably. I use neither ottoman nor hassock. I say footstool. Dinner refers to lunch. Supper is the evening meal. I live in an old farmhouse and have both a living room and a parlor. Two separate rooms with distinct uses. The living room is for everyday family use. The parlor is pretty much kept shut off and clean. Unexpected guests go into the parlor if the living room needs to be rehabilitated after playing ball in the house with the dogs. It even has a separate outside door - although I don't use that door. These are the terms that were prevalent when I was young - it was how my grandparents referenced things, my parents, and now myself. But, I did find your comparisons very enlightening. Apparently, I'm even more screwed up than I thought I was....LOL... (And yes, I did notice the 'generally' referring to the 'USA' in your post.)

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #29

77. You're not supposed to pronounce the t in often?

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:15 PM Response to Reply #77

133. Hey, don't worry.

I always pronounce the "t." It doesn't sound right to me to say "off-en."

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:26 PM Response to Original message

33. Some of the pronunciations are

regional. I say "ahhnt" not "ant." When I was going to school our teacher would correct any student who said "ant" by saying "ant is an insect that crawls like this..." and she'd make little crawing jestures. Most people I know around here say "ahhnt." So at least for me its not an attempt to sound snobby. That's just the way I was taught and the other pronunciation sounds strange to me. I also pronounce "route" as "root" not rhyming with "out." :) Around my office here are some I have heard from different people: Tommy HilFINGER--Tommy Hilfiger Draw--drawer Sectember--September acrost--across One that especially annoys me is "Southmore." Its Sophmore!

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:33 PM Response to Reply #33

42. There's a "u" in aunt.

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:43 PM Response to Reply #42

50. I know how to spell "aunt."

I was trying to spell out how I pronounce and explain why since one poster commented on that particular pronunciation being wrong. ;-)

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:01 PM Response to Reply #50

70. I know that! I was trying to spell out the reason for the ...

... proper pronounciation for anyone else who was reading. :yoiks:

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:51 PM Response to Reply #70

95. I'm sorry.

I am sometimes a little dense when reading and interpreting. :D :crazy:

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cfield (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:02 PM Response to Reply #33

102. K-State's basketball announcer

says soph-o-more instead of sophmore. Terribly obnoxious!

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:20 PM Response to Reply #102

114. Want to know what's even worse?

"Southmore!" And I work with someone who says that all the time! :banghead:

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cfield (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:25 PM Response to Reply #114

116. That would be worse;

the 'soph-o-more' has become a joke for us. But only because we love our KSU sports enough to tolerate the announcers!

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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:41 PM Response to Reply #33

118. It bugs me when they pronounce "route" as "rout"

rhyming with "out." It sounds like a cat -- mrrout

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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:32 PM Response to Original message

40. these make my ears hurt

athelete instead of athlete cannidate instead of candidate doggy dog instead of dog eat dog duck tape instead of duct tape excetera instead of et cetera Febyuary instead of February foilage instead of foliage gigabyte (OK, I have long since given up fighting this one and most dictionaries now list both pronunciations as correct.) But the word comes from the greek prefix 'giga' and should be pronounced the same as other words rooted in it such as “gigantic” or “gigalo.” hi-archy instead of hierarchy irregardless instead of regardless jewlery instead of jewelry mischievious instead of mischievous mispronounciation instead of pronunciation paticular instead of particular perogative instead of prerogative simular instead of similar wheel barrel instead of wheelbarrow

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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:34 PM Response to Original message

43. "Chomping at the bit"

I'm always amazed when otherwise-intelligent people say this.

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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:38 PM Response to Reply #43

47. pacific or pacifically instead of specific or specifically

I've only encountered a few people that do this, but it drives me nuts. That and people who call their entire computer the "hard drive."

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:46 PM Response to Reply #43

55. "Expecially" instead of "especially" n/t

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:22 PM Response to Reply #43

79. why?

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:58 PM Response to Reply #79

101. Here:

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 04:59 PM by calico1 Look under "Colloquialisms" http://www.langston.com/English/ I don't use that term but I have hard chomping much more than champing. Its funny how if something is said very often it is accepted as more correct than the original and correct version.

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:51 PM Response to Reply #101

127. Ah I see, your issue is champ vs. chomp

I thought you had a problem with the entire phrase. But doesn't chomp mean the same thing as champ?

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:00 PM Response to Reply #127

128. Hehhehe.

No, its not *my* issue. I was not the poster who posted that. I just responded after *I* looked it up so that you could see what the poster was referring to. ;-)

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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:25 PM Response to Reply #127

135. I'm the one who is bugged about the entire phrase.

One who is anxiously ready to go is said to be "champing" at the bit (as a horse will do), but it was obviously very easy to get shifted into "chomping" because that suggests a biting or eating action. Probably 90% of people say it wrongly.

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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:09 PM Response to Reply #43

108. Along those lines: "bold face lie." It's not BOLD.

The expression is "bald-faced lie."

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_testify_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:00 PM Response to Reply #43

170. it's 'champing at the bit'...

or is that what you meant?

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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:22 PM Response to Reply #43

175. Also sort of along those lines: "Music sooths the savage beast."

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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:35 PM Response to Original message

44. Samich

I mean seriously. It's not that hard of a word "Sandwich" I hear adults say this. It's like they are 5.

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Cats Against Frist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:33 PM Response to Reply #44

137. I agree. I was going to say that that was mine.

I came to look, first, for a kindred spirit. :)

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message

46. That Midwestern death-to-vowels talk.

Midwesterners have a vendetta against the letters "A" and "E" in their short form. Welcome to Ameeeerica. Need some cee-ash? Where's your hee-at? Is C-eeee-role coming? :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :hurts: :spank: :argh:

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:41 PM Response to Reply #46

48. And the "o" as well -

listen to a midwesterner, especially in WI, say "Bob" or "John" or "God". We don't add extra syllables to vowels like they do in the South "Go-aw-awd Almighty!", but we do destroy them. And the "a" as you mentioned: a Wisconsinite will utterly butcher "ham" and "pants", with a real hard nasaly "a". And I know, because I'm from there, and that's how I talk! NYers always made fun of me for it; while I was able to keep it down mostly, I never could, and still can't, pronounce "bagel" without wisconsinizing it. The sound of that particular "a" will ever elude me.

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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:13 PM Response to Reply #46

111. I'm from the Midwest and I have never done that.

I'm very fond of short a and short e.

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MN ChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:42 PM Response to Original message

49. "Strenth"

instead of "Strength." :grr:

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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:01 PM Response to Reply #49

68. And lennth! Don't forget lennth! GRRRRRRR! n/t

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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:43 PM Response to Original message

51. Ath-a-leet instead of Athlete...

and RASSLER or RASSLING for Wrestler or Wrestling...And, I'm not talking about the fake stuff.

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:44 PM Response to Original message

52. "Supposably"...

I had a roommate who said that and it used to get on my nerves. :)

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:45 PM Response to Reply #52

53. "Avery" for "aviary"

This was prevalent in the bird club to which I once belonged.

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:45 PM Response to Original message

54. tore instead of tour

I think it must be a PA or VA thing to pronounce it "tore." CA, WI and CO all pronounce it "two-er."

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:49 PM Response to Reply #54

57. Two others..

CHAW-klit and AWW-ringe. (chocolate and orange).

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:48 PM Response to Original message

56. pusgetti instead of spaghetti

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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:04 PM Response to Reply #56

72. The worst! Also, JEW-LA-REE instead of jewel-ry. AND...

ValentiMe's Day. Heard that one all the time in Chicago. :mad: But pusgetti is by far the worst. It's like, are you still three years old or something? Because adults do not talk that way.

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:16 PM Response to Reply #72

173. it makes me sick

it's like "pus-ketti?" The word pus is sick enough as it is, let alone put into a food context. Yick!

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:25 PM Response to Reply #56

80. it's BAsketti!

get it right! :evilgrin:

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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:36 PM Response to Reply #80

82. I'm gonna hurt you real bad.

}(

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:14 PM Response to Reply #82

172. yeah, do it!

I'm right behind you! :) :hide:

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:13 PM Response to Reply #80

171. oh that is bad too

no doubt. :)

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atomic-fly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:58 PM Response to Original message

62. srimp

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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 03:58 PM Response to Original message

63. "loose" for "lose", "effected" for "affected", "imply" for "infer"

stuff like that.

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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:00 PM Response to Original message

66. The way Bush pronounces "terrorist"

it sounds like "terst" or possibly "tourist"

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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:01 PM Response to Original message

69. complected vs. complexioned.....

....after bein' chastised for this in high school by my english teacher...and I mean we had it OUT...him sayin' it was incorrect english usin' complected...WELL HERE YA GO MR. WARNER..YOU BASTARD! :wow: Main Entry: com·plect·ed Pronunciation: k&m-'plek-t&dFunction: adjectiveEtymology: irregular from complexion: having a specified facial complexion <a tall, thin man, fairly dark complected -- E. J. Kahn> usage Not an error, nor a dialectal term, nor nonstandard-all of which it has been labeled-complected still manages to raise hackles. It is an Americanism, apparently nonexistent in British English. Its currency in American English is attested as early as 1806 (by Meriwether Lewis) and it appears in the works of such notable American writers as Mark Twain, O. Henry, James Whitcomb Riley, and William Faulkner. Complexioned, recommended by handbooks, has less use than complected. Literary use, old and new, slightly favors COMPLECTED.

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:03 PM Response to Original message

71. "Heith."

(for height) Redstone

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:03 PM Response to Reply #71

103. A coworker of mine says that.

He is a native of Missouri. I read somewhere that heith is supposedly an old English version of the word. But it does annoy me too. Good thing I like my coworker.:-)

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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:04 PM Response to Original message

73. nother

as in, "it's a whole nother story."

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Cats Against Frist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:36 PM Response to Reply #73

138. That's endearing to me

"whole nother," -- as well as the "pertinear." -- "He drove the gall durn tractor pertinear to Shakey's before he remembered he left his hat."

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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:05 PM Response to Original message

74. "President" vs asshole dictator

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:21 PM Response to Original message

78. "Aboot."

:hide:

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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:34 PM Response to Original message

81. "Warsh" instead of "wash." There is no R there!

Where did the friggin' R come from ? WTF? An R? Are you fucking kidding me? Warrrrrsh? Aaaaahhhhh! :nuke:

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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:16 PM Response to Reply #81

134. Got it the same place

they got the "R" for IDEAR (instead of idea!) Oh I thought of another one - Sairday - for Saturday.....

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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:38 PM Response to Original message

83. It's NOT "IlliNOISE"

"IllinOI". The "s" is silent.

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:44 PM Response to Reply #83

88. What about Mizzourah?

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:15 PM Response to Reply #88

112. I think that's correct.

Some cities or towns don't usually get pronounced correctly by people who are not from the region. Two often mispronounced cities are: Gloucester -- Glows-ter, not Glow-chester Worcester-- Wuss-ter, not War-chester.

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LSdemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:21 PM Response to Reply #112

160. Depends on where you are in the state

Only the rural areas say Missourah, but it drives us city and suburban folk nuts.

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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:38 PM Response to Reply #160

181. Uh. My mom is from Kansas City, MO and says Missourah

It drives folks crazy when I say it that way as well. That and "Worshington," "worshing the clothes," etc. And me, all learned and such.. (pronounced "lerned"...not learn-ed, Homer)

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rexcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:50 PM Response to Reply #83

92. "Fer "instead of "for"

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rexcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:50 PM Response to Reply #83

93. "Fer "instead of "for"

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rexcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:51 PM Response to Reply #83

94. "Fer "instead of "for"

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:45 PM Response to Reply #83

123. That's right, it's pronounced "FIBland" or "FlatlanderLand"

:7

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ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:42 PM Response to Original message

85. Ven-CHURA instead of Ventura!

San Peedro instead of San PED-ro. I hate how 'muricans butcher the name of American cities that are spanish.

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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:44 PM Response to Reply #85

87. How about "Dezz Moynzz" ? The French names really take

a hit here!

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:07 PM Response to Reply #87

106. I had a boss once who's last name was

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 05:07 PM by calico1 Lefebvre. His name got killed all the time. It was usually "Le-FEVER" or LE-FABE-RA. Americans like to pronounce each and every letter of any foreign word.

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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:49 PM Response to Original message

90. I say 'frigerator' quite often...

I'm going to blame this on my Mom, and I can't even remember if she said it or not.

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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:50 PM Response to Original message

91. Being from the SW US and having a lot of Spanish vocabulary

in common use, I hate when folks can't learn correct pronounciation. It's saWAHro not saGWAro, AH-ho not AH-jo, CHO-ya not CHO-la, HEE-la not GEE-la or JEE-la, etc!

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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 04:51 PM Response to Original message

96. Secuhtery, liebry, and febUary

Instead of seCREtary, LibRARY and FebRUary!

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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:04 PM Response to Original message

104. Orient-tate

Instead of "orient" as in "allow me to orient you to the map."

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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:11 PM Response to Reply #104

109. I hate that too.

According to some dictionaries (not my Webster's), it's acceptable, but I don't have to like it.

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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:05 PM Response to Original message

105. Aluminum for Aluminium...

...Damn colonials... :D

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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:16 PM Response to Reply #105

113. ...damn Tories....

:P

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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:42 PM Response to Reply #113

120. ...Damn Whigs...

:spank:

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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:08 PM Response to Original message

107. ASS-essories. People, it's ACK-cessories!

Same goes for people who pronounce "success" as suh-SESS.

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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:21 PM Response to Original message

115. EX-presso, lie-berry, and jew-LA-ree,

which, unless you're a pinhead or can be excused for a learning disability, should be: ES-presso, lie-brary, and jewel-ree

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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:42 PM Response to Original message

119. Sim -U-lar.

Believe it or not; my HIGH SCHOOL teacher said this all the time. Yetch. THERE IS NO U IN THE WORD SIMILAR!!!!

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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:45 PM Response to Original message

122. "nitch" for niche

"We have a nice little 'nitch' market here". :puke:

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:46 PM Response to Reply #122

124. yeah, we all know it's pronounced "nee-SHAY"

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:05 PM Response to Reply #124

131. I say "neesh" n/t

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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 05:47 PM Response to Original message

125. Conversate instead of converse

There's no such word as conversate! The freakin' word is CONVERSE for "to have a conversation"! Go back to school if you don't understand!

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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:02 PM Response to Original message

129. Pea-body mass---it's Peebuddy damnit!

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:04 PM Response to Reply #129

130. Massachusetts has its own distinctive

language! :P

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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:09 PM Response to Reply #130

132. yup and when i moved to california i should have brought a translator with

me.

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:27 PM Response to Original message

136. THE SINGLE MOST ANNOYING WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 06:27 PM by Redstone Unless the speaker is a very old lady, I guarantee you that the person who says it is an affectational twit. I almost hestitate to burden you with it. Are you ready? Brace yourselves. That word is: Shan't. I bet you're cringeing right now. Sorry. Redstone

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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #136

139. Can you use it in a sentence? I don't think i've heard that one before.

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:15 PM Response to Reply #139

142. It's a contraction of "shall not."

"I shan't allow your to go to the dance tonight." It's really archaic, and every single person I've ever heard use it was a smacked ass, thinking they sounded hifalutin' when they just sounded annoying. Redstone

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:19 PM Response to Reply #142

144. Hehhee.

I have heard an elderly person here and there using it. Now, if some 35 year old who didn't speak proper English all of a sudden used it, then I'd find it funny.

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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:06 PM Response to Reply #144

158. "Will" and "shall" had distinct, separate meanings a LONG time ago,

but the difference was not enough to keep them both, so "shall" got the broom. Hearing "Shall" these days is jarring enough, but "shan't" is just absolutely unnecessary. And can cause contusions on the speaker if spoken within my earshot. Redstone

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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:17 PM Response to Reply #136

143. Sorry.

It doesn't bother me. I don't use it but it doesn't make me cringe. Its used by the Brits so its not like a total mispronunciation like "fer" instead of "for." Its just an old English version.

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clbuck (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:10 PM Response to Original message

140. A couple of obvious ones:

Or-ruh-GONE instead of Or-re-GIN (with a hard "g" like game) for Oregon. Care-uh-BE-in instead of Cuh-RIB-ean for Caribbean. Ne-VAHH-duh instead of Ne-VAH-da (pronounced like "cat" or "dad") for Nevada. And there's a couple of Oregon-related places that are mispronounced: Wilamette River: Wil-a-MET-e instead of Wil-AM-mit Tualatin: Two-a-LATIN instead Tuh-WAL-i-tin Tigard: Tigger-d (like the Winnie the Pooh character) instead of TIE-grr-d

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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:23 PM Response to Original message

145. "Spitting image"

Another reverse-engineered construction from "spittin' image," which is actually a mistake itself. The origin is "spirit and image" (as in "You're the spirit and image of your Daddy," soon shortened to "spirit 'n' image" and then "spit'n'image." It's easy to see how lots of folks came to think the image was somehow spitting.

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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:25 PM Response to Original message

146. physical year

AAAAAUUUUUGHHHH!

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chaska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:34 PM Response to Original message

148. vunerable (vulnerable)

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ok_cpu (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:35 PM Response to Original message

149. This one drives me nuts

and I'm probably the only one but watch a golf broadcast and listen to them say "Jose Maria Olazabal" You get this terrible "gringo" pronounced "Ho'-zay" "Ma'-reee-yaaa" followed by a very Alex Trebek, Castilian "Oh-la-tha-baal". If you're going to pronounce the dude's name correctly, pronounce it correctly.... :crazy:

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Scout1071 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:39 PM Response to Original message

151. Warsh. I'm gonna warsh my clothes.

Will you warsh the dishes? It's a small town, Midwest thing. Drives me nuts.

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Guy Fawkes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 07:47 PM Response to Original message

152. "President Bush" instead of "Complete Moron"

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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 08:06 PM Response to Original message

155. krystual instead of crystal, Krystal, Christal

Cracks me up every time. At one of my former jobs, we used a form that was titled "Ajudication Sheet". It went with each claim to sort of summarize the process. The trainer and most of the other employees insisted on pronouncing it "ajudification" which absolutely drove me bananas. There is no F in ajudication

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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:18 PM Response to Original message

159. "Just" instead of "Gist"

And, along with everyone else: lie-berry.

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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:34 PM Response to Original message

161. supposeBly instead of supposeDly. Yuck! n/t

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philosophie_en_rose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:36 PM Response to Reply #161

163. That's mine too.

Supposably? Where the hell does that come from? :shrug:

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WilmywoodNCparalegal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:36 PM Response to Original message

162. Homer-Shecks-shuall

or homo-sheck-sooal :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 09:40 PM Response to Original message

164. Worsh, worsht.

Yeah, yeah, I know it's north England and hung around in the midwest because of the preponderance of yorkshiremen and low Scots, but it drives me crazy. Wash. Washed.

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u4ic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 10:04 PM Response to Original message

166. EYE-raq

:wtf:

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:33 PM Response to Reply #166

180. that really gets my goat

I used to have people try to argue with me about the war and pronounce it like that. I always think, "WTF, you are trying to act like some foreign policy expert and you can't even pronounce a country's name properly?" :) That one grates on my nerves whenever I hear it. It's my equivalent of screeching a chalkboard.

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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 10:06 PM Response to Original message

168. Axe me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. Oh, and Warshington.

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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:22 PM Response to Original message

176. I have a brother who says "Ja-rink" instead of "drink"

it has driven me nuts all my life. I never noticed, until once when we were about 7 or 8 (or even younger), somewhere around there (he's 10 months younger) we were practicing spelling and he spelled "drink" with a J. I was laughing my ass off and he was insisting that it started with a J. Well, my mom corrected him and so on, but he still pronounced it that way. I noticed over the years that he never stopped. It's hard to tell unless you're looking for it, because it's a word that is said so fast, plus have to time you're drunk when you hear it spoken, haha, but it always stood out to me like a sore thumb. He still says it too. I doubt he even realizes anymore. He's 30, btw.

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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:24 PM Response to Original message

177. Draw for drawer

Constantly mispronounced here in NJ.

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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:28 PM Response to Original message

178. Moe's art

instead of Mote zart

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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:29 PM Response to Original message

179. Kilometer

And nobody here has mentioned Scotty McHamburger's "impordant." Makes me want to slap that airbag. And: what's up with Houston (city) vs. Houston (street in New York)?

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judaspriestess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Dec-14-05 11:39 PM Response to Original message

182. ReaLAtor instead of Realtor

or axed instead of asked

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